funicular
"funicular" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“funicular” is uncommon English (frequency #72,329 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,329
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-funicular · funicular · English
funicular · rank #72,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,329
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fudging
Nearest frequency peer: fudging (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “funicular”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Frege
Frege
27,677 corpus weight
- frigidaire
frigidaire
27,676 corpus weight
- frond
frond
27,674 corpus weight
- fudging
fudging
27,673 corpus weight
- funicular
funicular
27,672 corpus weight
- furtively
furtively
27,671 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “funicular” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | funicular |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “funicular” in English
Rare enough to double-check
funicular is uncommon English at frequency #72,329 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for funicular, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. The correct English form is funicular, spelled F-U-N-I-C-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
- 2Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
- 3Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
- 4Synonym of catenary.
Etymology
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).